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人物专访 Interview
Yicent: 在当前隔离期间，您的日常工作是怎么样的？与疫情
前有什么不同？
Seco 教授: 没有令人兴奋的事。不同之处在于我在家待着。我
所有的工作都能容易地转到网上来做。我过去已经这样做了。
去年，我花了一半的时间在旅途上，所以已经习惯了远程工
作。对我来说，我每天所做的一切没有变化。我只是不用去办
公室，所以我早上例行做一些事。我很幸运家里有一个游泳
池，所以我每天早晨去游泳。当我完成包括游泳在内一些例行
事情后，便来到现在办公的地方，开始电话会议。通常，我从
我们很多业务所在的欧洲开始沟通交流。欧洲比我们早 6 个小
时，所以先从那开始。接下来，我处理北美业务，其中包括多
伦多。晚上，通常和澳大利亚开完会后，我结束一天的工作。
我在澳大利亚也开展不少业务。我和中国互动也非常频繁，时
间通常选在早晨或晚上，有时会有变化。这就是我典型的一
天。我通过 Zoom 和电话沟通所有事情。就这样工作！我不必
去办公室，节省了通勤时间。虽然办公室离家不远。我不得不
说没有什么令人特别兴奋的。这就是我现在做的事。我期待一
切恢复正常，或进入新常态，无论一切会怎样，我都可以去改
变。我曾经每天到处飞，每天醒来不知道在哪个国家，哪座城
市，每天的行程都不同。而现在我的行程每天都一样。我也可
以经常见到我的家人。
Yicent: 作为多伦多大学数学金融硕士（MMF）项目的主任，您
对毕业生在这个特殊时期找工作有什么建议？
Seco 教授: 我经常关注这方面，并且告诉 MMF 的学生正在发生
的事情。我花了很多时间去了解就业市场、趋势，好的方面、
坏的方面以及接下来将发什么。我们正进入一个有意思的状况。
就业市场变得有意思已经很长一段时间了。因为它将焦点从传
统事物转移到新兴事物。我一直希望学生知道正在发展的事物。
关于这一点，这 5 年来我一直告诉学生，工作已经转移到两个
领域：一个是技术，这是金融科技的领域，另一个是法规和合
规性领域。技术包括监管技术和金融科技。MMF 一直试图通过
中间的金融来涉足这一切，方式简单来说就是监管技术和金融
科技。现在的疫情正在加速这个发展趋势，人们对监管技术和
金融科技有了更大的信赖。我认为对金融人士来说，金融科技
的机会将超过传统金融业。我在这提个醒，以防万一，因为你
可能没有意识到工作环境的变化。我举个例子：Loblaws。我们
去那购物。这是一个非常有意思的机构，他们拥有加拿大最大
的药店，比以往任何时候都忙，对吧？同时，他们拥有一家银
行，PC Financial。因此，他们是一个非常有活力的机构。他们
正在布兰普顿成立一家数据中心，现在正在招聘。如果你正在
找传统工作，可能没有。机会在其他地方。我每天花很多时间
挖掘机会在哪。我对学生的建议是保持初心，无论去年怎么样，
现在不必如此，与人们交谈并且找出机会在哪，因为我们正在
经历一个非常有意思的技术革命的新篇章。我无法说一个特定
的机会对于特定的人，我能说的是现在有很好的就业机会。
CCFA JOURNAL OF FINANCE
加中金融
Yicent: What is your typical workday during the current quarantine
period? Any difference from before the pandemic?
Professor Seco: Nothing exciting. The difference is I don’t leave the
house. Given what I do it is very easy for me to do everything online.
I already did that a lot. Last year I spent half my days travelling, so I
have to get used to working remotely. For me there is no change now
to what I am doing everyday. I just don’t go to my office, so I do my
morning routine. I am very lucky to have a swimming pool in my
house, so I go there every morning. After I’ve done my morning
routine, which includes some swimming, I just get down to my office,
where I am now, and I start to take my calls and conversations with
people. I typically start my conversations with Europe where a lot of
our business is. They are six hours ahead of us, so I do that. Then I
spend the rest of my time with my North American activities, which
includes Toronto. Then I end the day typically at night with
conversations with Australia where I am also very active. China
which I interact with very often, usually either earlier or later in the
day. That could change. That’s typically my day. That’s it. And I talk
to people on Zoom, on the phone, whatever the need might be. And
I work! I don’t have to go the office, that saves the commute time.
Although I don’t live very far from the office. I have to say there is
nothing exciting. Right now, that’s all I do. I am looking forward to
the normal, or new normal, whatever it is going to be, so I can go and
basically change. I used to have days that were unpredictable. I didn’t
know which country I was in, which city I was in, and my schedule
was different every day. Now my schedule is the same every day. I
see my family a lot now.
Yicent: As the director of the Master of Mathematical Finance
(MMF) program in the University of Toronto, what is your advice to
graduating students on job hunting in this unprecedent time?
Professor Seco: I am very active on that and tell MMF students
what’s happening. I spend lots of time trying to understand the job
market, the trends, what’s good, what’s bad and what’s the next thing
happening. We are getting into a very interesting situation. The job
market has been interesting for a long time. Because it shifts the focus
from something that is very traditional to things that are very new. I
always want students to know what is developing. Regarding that, I
think it has been 5 years that I have been telling the students that jobs
have been shifting into two areas: one is technology, which is a
fintech area, and the other one is the regulation and compliance area.
Technology includes regtech (regulatory technology) and fintech.
MMF has been trying to get into everything out there with finance in
the middle, the activities are, briefly, regtech and fintech. Now this
pandemic is accelerating that, there is a bigger trust in regtech and
fintech. I think the fintech opportunities for people in the financial
area are going to go beyond the traditional financial industry. I give
the advice to watch out, to be alert, because there are changes to the
job landscape you might not be aware of. I also give an example:
Loblaws. We all go there for shopping. It is a very interesting
organization because they own the largest pharmacy in Canada, and
they are busier than ever, right? At the same time, they own a bank,
PC Financial. So, they are a very active organization. They are setting
up a data centre in Brampton and they are hiring for that. If you are
looking for the traditional jobs, they may not exist. The opportunities
are elsewhere, and I spend a good chunk of my day, everyday, trying
to sniff out where the opportunities are. My advice to students is that
they be original, whatever was “last year” doesn’t have to be “now”,
talk to people and find out where the opportunities are, because we
are going through a very interesting new chapter of this technology
revolution right now. I can’t give a specific opportunity that exists
for someone in particular, what I can say is there are wonderful
opportunities for employment right now.
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